SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- Next-Generation Electromagnetic Spectrum Strategic Roadmap
- Notice Date
- 1/4/2023 12:21:48 PM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- Contracting Office
- DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AGENCY FORT MEADE MD 207550549 USA
- ZIP Code
- 207550549
- Solicitation Number
- 632369514
- Response Due
- 2/10/2023 11:00:00 AM
- Archive Date
- 08/10/2023
- Point of Contact
- Richard S. Paul, Phone: 3012254133, OSD Pentagon Mailbox
- E-Mail Address
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richard.s.paul2.civ@mail.mil, osd.pentagon.dod-cio.mbx.dod-ems-roadmap-rfi@mail.mil
(richard.s.paul2.civ@mail.mil, osd.pentagon.dod-cio.mbx.dod-ems-roadmap-rfi@mail.mil)
- Description
- REQUEST FOR INFORMATION The Defense Information Systems Agency / Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization � National Capital Region, on behalf of the Department of Defense (DoD), is seeking information to support the development of a Next-Generation Electromagnetic Spectrum (EMS) Strategic Roadmap that the Senate Armed Services Committee requested in a letter to Secretary Lloyd Austin in June 2022.� The Senate report for its version of the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act contains an identical request. THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY The Government has not made a commitment to procure any of the items discussed, and release of this RFI should not be construed as such a commitment or as authorization to incur cost for which reimbursement would be sought. �All submissions become Government property and will not be returned. �This RFI does not constitute a solicitation for bids, proposals or quotes and is not to be construed as a commitment by the government to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP), Request for Quote (RFQ), or a contract award pursuant to this request.� This announcement is not an RFP or an RFQ. CONFIDENTIAL OR PROPRIETARY INFORMATION This RFI invites responses containing confidential or proprietary information (including, but not limited to, trade secrets, commercial, or financial data).� Please segregate confidential or proprietary information.� Any confidential or proprietary information must be clearly identifiable wherever it appears in a respondent�s submitted documents. �All other information will not be treated as confidential.� All information marked confidential or proprietary in RFI responses is only for the government�s planning use. �Confidential information may be reviewed by Government contractors, subject to a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). �Otherwise, no information marked confidential will be disclosed to any other party outside of the Government.� 1. Overview/Purpose DoD must assure and maintain access to and use of the EMS at home and abroad. �The modern Electromagnetic Operating Environment is increasingly congested, contested, and constrained.� This jeopardizes the U.S. military�s ability to sense, command, control, communicate, test, train, protect, and project force effectively. �Without the capabilities to assert spectrum superiority, the nation�s economic and national security will be exposed to undue and significant risk. �More than ever, our warfighters require assured, near real time spectrum access to meet operational imperatives.� The Department�s ability to achieve freedom of action in spectrum at the time and place of its choosing is critical to all-domain advantage for U.S. allied, and partner forces. To achieve this, DoD must focus efforts on the following five interdependent goals: develop superior spectrum capabilities; evolve to an agile, and fully integrated, spectrum infrastructure; pursue total force readiness in the spectrum; secure enduring partnerships for spectrum advantage; and establish effective spectrum governance. DoD seeks information on a broad range of topics to support development of an EMS Strategic Roadmap. Particularly, DoD is interested in revolutionary leap-ahead spectrum-based technologies and capabilities designed to share spectrum.� DoD expects that military investments in EMS technologies will both leverage and augment commercial innovation to the benefit of DoD operations and the national EMS ecosystem as a whole.� Collectively, these technologies, when adequately matured and integrated into future warfighting systems, will improve DoD�s capability to survive, operate, and keep pace with emerging capabilities in the presence of adversary systems, highly congested spectrum, and relevant environmental phenomena. 2. Scope of Effort DoD must maintain military overmatch against its adversaries while sharing the spectrum with commercial partners.� Increased adversary competition and commercial congestion drives the need to develop new capabilities and techniques to enhance spectrum efficiency, maximize spectrum compatibility, and ensure EMS superiority.� Many new spectrum-based capabilities require long acquisition lead times and must be supported by millions if not billions of dollars to perform the underlying research, development, test, and evaluation and then integration into military operations.� The Department�s acquisition planning process must take into account the rapid pace of emerging threats within the EMS from our near peer adversaries including China and Russia. The Senate Armed Services Committee laid out an expectation for DoD to engage and seek input from relevant industry stakeholders and other entities of the Federal government in the development of a next-generation EMS strategic roadmap. This RFI is one mechanism DoD is utilizing to obtain a broad and diverse range of industry stakeholder inputs. The requested EMS strategic roadmap will incorporate inputs received from this RFI to achieve U.S. military readiness, tighter integration across warfighting domains, and increased lethality of U.S. forces. 3. Technical Characteristics The RFI seeks information to support the development of an EMS Strategic Roadmap in particular areas, including: Forecast expected electromagnetic spectrum access requirements of all future military applications based on EMS innovation. Identify opportunities to promote advanced forms of spectrum sharing between military and commercial systems. Identify opportunities to accelerate integration of advance dynamic spectrum techniques for survivability and reliability while operating in a highly contested and congested EMS ecosystem. Review tools available or in development that can support processing large quantities of spectrum data in rapidly changing EMS environments to facilitate more dynamic forms of sharing Spectrum sharing has many competing definitions across government, industry, and academia.� DoD Instruction 4650.01 requires the DoD to �consider sharing the spectrum with other Federal agencies and with commercial users. Sharing of spectrum shall be accomplished: (1) Without degradation to the DoD mission. (2) In a manner that provides current and future DoD users with sufficient regulatory protection. (3) With minimal risk that such sharing will result in loss of access to the spectrum necessary to perform the DoD mission.� For the purposes of this RFI, spectrum sharing is defined as the use of spectrum that allows mutual use in a manner that provides current and future users sufficient regulatory protection and without degradation or harmful interference nor result in the loss of access to the spectrum to or amongst incumbent users.� Spectrum sharing does not involve reallocation or vacation of the band by incumbent users.� Spectrum sharing also does not involve compression above or below the band by incumbent users. To train, fight, and win, the DoD needs freedom of action in the EMS, at the time, place, and parameters of our choosing.� Freedom of action is a necessary precursor to our military�s success in all domains.� Adversary actions, commercial development, and regulatory constraints impede U.S. forces� freedom of action in the EMS.� Ensuring such freedom of action by maximizing DoD access to spectrum will require innovation and new ways of thinking. 4. Requested Information A. What current or future technologies could facilitate harmonious spectrum sharing between unlike systems, such as next generation wireless and government radars? B. What current and future technologies enable dynamic spectrum maneuverability and improve reliability in the use of the EMS in a congested and contested (i.e. adversary attempts to deny, disrupt, or disable spectrum-based capabilities) spectrum environments? C. What current or future technologies, tools, or platforms can improve DoD�s ability to handle large quantities of EMS environmental data to facilitate more dynamic forms of sharing including real-time and near-real-time spectrum sharing? D. What spectrum bands are candidates for sharing for commercial use to improve efficient use of electromagnetic spectrum? E. What changes to legislative, regulatory, and policy frameworks could support increased non-federal spectrum access while simultaneously preserving DoD missions? F. How can DoD improve communications and long-term spectrum planning with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration on the military operational effect of electromagnetic spectrum policy decisions? G. Are there technologies provided by the telecommunication, information and communications technology industry, gaming/entertainment, or other areas outside traditional defense spectrum technologies that should be considered in a DoD EMS roadmap? H. How could cooperation and collaboration between DoD and external stakeholders be strengthened? How could cooperation and collaboration among federal agencies be strengthened? I. Are there any other matters that you would like to share with the Department of Defense to inform development of a threat-informed roadmap? 5. Responses� Interested parties should respond to this RFI with a white paper.� White papers shall not exceed a total of one hundred (100) typewritten, double-sided sheets of letter-size paper (i.e. 200 pages of text, printed front and back onto a total of 100 pieces of 8 � inch x 11 inch paper).� The page margins should be one (1�) inch on all sides.� The type for the white paper (excluding charts and/or graphs) shall be black.� The characters per inch shall not exceed twelve (12) characters per linear inch or be smaller than twelve (12) point.� A smaller font is acceptable for non-text items such as tables, graphics, and exhibits, and at no time should the font be smaller than 10 charters per linear size.� The font shall be Calibri 12 pt and should not exceed six (6) lines per vertical inch.� Interested parties should submit the white paper via electronic mail in a test searchable format using one of the following:� PDF print-to-PDF format, and not in a scanned format, HTML, ASCII, MSWORD.� Responses (and all associated attachments) should not exceed a 5 MB e-mail limit.� Responses must specifically address the requested information in Section 4.� Oral communications are not permissible.� The website SAM.gov will be the sole repository for all information related to this RFI. Organizations or individuals must provide submissions via email no later than 10 February 2023 business days from the posting of this request to Richard S. Paul at richard.s.paul2.civ@mail.mil AND to the organization box:� osd.pentagon.dod-cio.mbx.dod-ems-roadmap-rfi@mail.mil. 6. Industry Discussions DISA and/or DoD representatives may choose to meet with individual respondents to obtain further clarification regarding the information submitted in white papers. Such discussions would only be intended to obtain further clarification of potential capability to meet the requirements, including any development and certification risks 7. Questions Questions regarding the RFI instructions or submission format shall be submitted in writing by email to Richard S. Paul at richard.s.paul2.civ@mail.mil AND to the organization box: osd.pentagon.dod-cio.mbx.dod-ems-roadmap-rfi@mail.mil.� Verbal questions will NOT be accepted.� Answers to questions will be posted to sam.gov.� The Government does not guarantee that questions received after 15 January 2023 may not be answered.� Disclaimer This RFI is not a Request for Proposal (RFP) and is not a commitment by the Government to issue a solicitation or ultimately award a contract. �Responses will not be considered as proposals nor will any award be made as a result of this synopsis.� All information contained in the RFI is preliminary, subject to modification, and is in no way binding on the Government. �FAR 52.215-3, Request for Information or Solicitation for Planning Purposes, is hereby incorporated by reference. � The Government will not reimburse companies for any costs associated with the submissions of their responses.� Responders to this invitation are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this RFI. �This RFI will be the basis for collecting information on capabilities available. �This RFI is issued solely for information and planning purposes. �Please be advised that all submissions become Government property and will not be returned nor will receipt be confirmed. �In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses to this RFI are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract.
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